I have about ten sites on Netlify. They're fine now but a few minutes ago they were going up and down.

Actually, my sites on Netlify have 3-5 minute outages probably 10 times a year. It's actually kind of disappointing. While not a huge deal, it's the provider I use with the most downtime. About once a month I get a flurry of alerts from my uptime monitoring tool.

> About once a month I get a flurry of alerts from my uptime monitoring tool.

Me too! Glad to know it's not just me.

Am thinking of putting my Netlify site behind a cache or something to avoid this (Cloudfront or Cloudflare I guess) - any tutorials on this would be appreciated.

I think you can simply move your DNS to Cloudflare and enable the proxy on the DNS record for Netlify.

For the AWS crowd, I’ve moved most of my sites to Amplify Console - almost exactly the same feature set, will full integration with the rest of AWS.

Next.js has a slightly more convincing reason to use specialised hosting - Vercel has tight integrations and a few platform specific features.

For most apps that compile to static data, Netlify is pretty swappable with any other system.

Is Amplify backed by Cloudfront under the covers?

Yeah, I believe it is. But not by your Cloudfront distribution. It’s like the Amplify team is paying the Cloudfront team for distributions, so they’re not exposed to you. You don’t see the Amplify Console apps in your Cloudfront dashboard, if that’s what you’re asking.

From their status page:

> Starting at 11:58 UTC we started seeing an in increase errors and latency on our Standard Edge Network. The issue has been identified and a fix has been implemented.

Update:

> We’re still seeing the increase in errors and latency on our Standard Edge Network. The team continues to work on the issue.

https://www.netlifystatus.com

Yeah, still ongoing. My monitoring is showing Netlify sites switching between on and offline.

We are seeing the same. Any alternative hosting providers with comparable features that you prefer with better uptime?

Vercel is probably their biggest competitor, but I can't speak to their uptime.

Cloudflare Pages also has similar functionality.

What features exactly do you have under "comparable" here?

I know names are superficial, but I can’t help pass off the rant.

“Netflix” already sounds 1990’s, they’re stuck with that but they’re apart of FAANG so who cares.

This company chose Net- in 2014, while jumping the -ify fad. Too much

Seems to be back online for my websites here in Europe.